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Civil Rights Movement
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!3th Ammendment is Passed
The 13th Ammendment to the US constitution is passed abolishing slavery. -
14th Ammendment is passed
The 14th Ammendment was passed to ensure that every person born in the United States were citezens and had equal laws. -
Niagra Movements
DuBois demands racial equality mainly between whites and blacks and opposes of all laws that were not equal. -
Brown vs Board of Education
This argument allowed for the desegration of schools. This overrulled the Plessy vs Ferguson decision which allowed state school segregation -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old black boy who was murdered on the way home from school because he whistled at a white woman. This was a very important murder because it was one of the leading events that motivated the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. This caused a new era for black freedom and equality. -
Sit-Ins
Minorities across the US, mainly south, would sit in a restauraunt or some other buisness and wait to be served. They were never served but spit on and had things thrown at them, but this was a major event because other minorities followed this and then it was large silent protest. -
March on Washington
Where Martin Luther King Jr. had his "I have a dream" speech. This was a march where minorities got together to discuss their freedoms, rights, and jobs.
